PT Journal AU Janackova, B TI Possibilities of using the scale of four levels of reading literacy pirls 2016 in the issue of reading comprehension to develop more complex reading skills when working with artistic text in literary education classes and reading at the 1st stage of elementary school. SO EduPort PY 2020 BP 36 EP 42 VL 4 IS 1 DI 10.21062/edp.2020.003 DE Reading literacy; literary literacy; levels of reading literacy PIRLS 2016; literary text AB The content of the article is based on the PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) 2016 to readers' reading literacy of 4th year students when reading literary texts. It presents ideas for didactic procedures when working with elementary school pupils in classes of literary education and reading with artistic texts of children's literature. These levels in the PIRLS 2016 reading literacy scale were used to interpret a typical genre of children's literature - folk and author's fairy tales. The aim of the article is to describe the possibilities of how to work with the artistic text at individual levels of reading literacy and how to handle literary education and reading at elementary school with the information that the survey brings in specific didactic situations when interpreting appropriately chosen literary texts. ER